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Murphy Brown (1988)

English drama TV series on CBS

Series facts

Seasons
11260 episodes in all
Channel
CBS
Premiered
14 November 1988
Status
Ended on 20 December 2018
Episode length
30 min on average
TVmaze rating
6.3 / 10
Language
English
Country
United States

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Murphy Brown is an English TV series on CBS. 11 seasons, 260 episodes. Premiered 14 Nov 1988. Cast: Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto.

Seasons and episodes

Season 122 episodes, 14 Nov 1988 to 22 May 1989
  1. E1Respect14 Nov 1988
  2. E2Devil with a Blue Dress On21 Nov 1988
  3. E3Nowhere to Run28 Nov 1988
  4. E4Signed, Sealed, Delivered5 Dec 1988
  5. E5Murphy's Pony11 Dec 1988
  6. E6Baby Love12 Dec 1988
  7. E7Set Me Free19 Dec 1988
  8. E8And So He Goes2 Jan 1989
  9. E9I Would Have Danced All Night9 Jan 1989
  10. E10Kyle16 Jan 1989
  11. E11Off the Job Experience23 Jan 1989
  12. E12Why Do Fools Fall in Love?13 Feb 1989
  13. E13Soul Man20 Feb 1989
  14. E14It's How You Play the Game27 Feb 1989
  15. E15Mama Said6 Mar 1989
  16. E16Moscow on the Potomac13 Mar 1989
  17. E17My Dinner with Einstein20 Mar 1989
  18. E18Funnies Girl10 Apr 1989
  19. E19The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown1 May 1989
  20. E20The Summer of '778 May 1989
  21. E21The Bickners15 May 1989
  22. E22The Morning Show22 May 1989
Season 227 episodes, 18 Sep 1989 to 21 May 1990
  1. E1The Brothers Silverberg18 Sep 1989
  2. E2Anchors Away25 Sep 1989
  3. E3The Memo that Got Away2 Oct 1989
  4. E4TV or Not TV16 Oct 1989
  5. E5Miles' Big Adventure23 Oct 1989
  6. E6Buddies Schmuddies30 Oct 1989
  7. E7Whose Garbage is it Anyway?6 Nov 1989
  8. E8And the Whiner Is...13 Nov 1989
  9. E9Roasted20 Nov 1989
  10. E10Brown Like Me (1)27 Nov 1989
  11. E11Brown Like Me (2)27 Nov 1989
  12. E12The Strike11 Dec 1989
  13. E13Here's to You Mrs. Kinsella18 Dec 1989
  14. E14What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?1 Jan 1990
  15. E15Subpoena Envy8 Jan 1990
  16. E16I Want My FYI29 Jan 1990
  17. E17Frankly Speaking5 Feb 1990
  18. E18The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting12 Feb 1990
  19. E19Bad Girls19 Feb 1990
  20. E20Heart of Gold26 Feb 1990
  21. E21On the Road Again5 Mar 1990
  22. E22But First a Word from Our Sponsor19 Mar 1990
  23. E23Frank's Appendectomy9 Apr 1990
  24. E24Fax or Fiction30 Apr 1990
  25. E25The Bitch's Back7 May 1990
  26. E26Going to the Chapel (1)14 May 1990
  27. E27Going to the Chapel (2)21 May 1990
Season 326 episodes, 17 Sep 1990 to 20 May 1991
  1. E1The 390th Broadcast17 Sep 1990
  2. E2Brown and Blue24 Sep 1990
  3. E3Loco Hero1 Oct 1990
  4. E4Strike Two15 Oct 1990
  5. E5The Gold Rush22 Oct 1990
  6. E6Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery5 Nov 1990
  7. E7The Last Laugh12 Nov 1990
  8. E8Rootless People19 Nov 1990
  9. E9The Bummer of 4226 Nov 1990
  10. E10Trouble in Sherwood-Forrest10 Dec 1990
  11. E11Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way17 Dec 1990
  12. E12Retreat7 Jan 1991
  13. E13Eldin Imitates Life14 Jan 1991
  14. E14Contractions21 Jan 1991
  15. E15Hoarse Play4 Feb 1991
  16. E16The Novel11 Feb 1991
  17. E17Terror on the 17th Floor18 Feb 1991
  18. E18On Another Plane (1)25 Feb 1991
  19. E19On Another Plane (2)25 Feb 1991
  20. E20Driving Miss Crazy4 Mar 1991
  21. E21Everytime it Rains... You Get Wet18 Mar 1991
  22. E22Corky's Place8 Apr 1991
  23. E23Small29 Apr 1991
  24. E24The Usual Suspects6 May 1991
  25. E25Q & A on FYI13 May 1991
  26. E26Uh-Oh (1)20 May 1991
Season 426 episodes, 16 Sep 1991 to 18 May 1992
  1. E1Uh-Oh (2)16 Sep 1991
  2. E2Uh-Oh (3)16 Sep 1991
  3. E3I'm as Much of a Man as I Ever Was23 Sep 1991
  4. E4Male Call30 Sep 1991
  5. E5The Square Triangle7 Oct 1991
  6. E6Full Circle14 Oct 1991
  7. E7The Smiths Go to Washington28 Oct 1991
  8. E8It Came from College4 Nov 1991
  9. E9The Queen of Soul11 Nov 1991
  10. E10Inside Murphy Brown18 Nov 1991
  11. E11Mission Control25 Nov 1991
  12. E12Be it Ever So Humboldt9 Dec 1991
  13. E13Love is Blonde16 Dec 1991
  14. E14Anchor Rancor6 Jan 1992
  15. E15Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon13 Jan 1992
  16. E16Lovesick20 Jan 1992
  17. E17Heartfelt3 Feb 1992
  18. E18Send in the Clowns24 Feb 1992
  19. E19Murphy Buys the Farm2 Mar 1992
  20. E20Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are4 Mar 1992
  21. E21Rage Before Beauty16 Mar 1992
  22. E22Phil's Not So Silent Partner23 Mar 1992
  23. E23He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go27 Apr 1992
  24. E24On the Rocks4 May 1992
  25. E25A Chance of Showers11 May 1992
  26. E26Birth 10118 May 1992
Season 525 episodes, 21 Sep 1992 to 17 May 1993
  1. E1You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato (1)21 Sep 1992
  2. E2You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato (2)21 Sep 1992
  3. E3Life After Birth28 Sep 1992
  4. E4Black, White & Brown5 Oct 1992
  5. E5I Never Sang for My Husband12 Oct 1992
  6. E6Night of Living News26 Oct 1992
  7. E7A Year to Remember2 Nov 1992
  8. E8Midnight Plane to Paris9 Nov 1992
  9. E9Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much16 Nov 1992
  10. E10Winners Take All23 Nov 1992
  11. E11Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part7 Dec 1992
  12. E12I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas14 Dec 1992
  13. E13Games Mother Play4 Jan 1993
  14. E14The British Invasion11 Jan 1993
  15. E15Back to the Ball18 Jan 1993
  16. E16The Intern1 Feb 1993
  17. E17Trickster, We Hardly Knew Ye8 Feb 1993
  18. E18The World According to Avery15 Feb 1993
  19. E19Bump in the Night21 Feb 1993
  20. E20To Market, to Market1 Mar 1993
  21. E21Two for the Road15 Mar 1993
  22. E22Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man22 Mar 1993
  23. E23The Egg & I3 May 1993
  24. E24Ship of Phil's10 May 1993
  25. E25One17 May 1993
Season 625 episodes, 20 Sep 1993 to 16 May 1994
  1. E1The More Things Change20 Sep 1993
  2. E2Angst for the Memories27 Sep 1993
  3. E3Black and White and Read All Over4 Oct 1993
  4. E4Political Correctness11 Oct 1993
  5. E5The Young & the Rest of Us18 Oct 1993
  6. E6Ticket to Writhe25 Oct 1993
  7. E7I Don't Know You from Madam1 Nov 1993
  8. E8All the Life That's Fit to Print8 Nov 1993
  9. E9Bah Humboldt15 Nov 1993
  10. E10Reaper Madness22 Nov 1993
  11. E11It's Not Easy Being Brown29 Nov 1993
  12. E12To Have and Have Not6 Dec 1993
  13. E13Sox and the Single Woman13 Dec 1993
  14. E14A Piece of the Auction3 Jan 1994
  15. E15The Thrill of the Hunt10 Jan 1994
  16. E16The Deal of the Art17 Jan 1994
  17. E17The Anchorman24 Jan 1994
  18. E18Fjord Eyes Only31 Jan 1994
  19. E19Crime Story28 Feb 1994
  20. E20The Fifth Anchor7 Mar 1994
  21. E21Anything But Cured14 Mar 1994
  22. E22The Tip of the Silverburg28 Mar 1994
  23. E23It's Just Like Riding a Bike2 May 1994
  24. E24My Movie with Louis9 May 1994
  25. E25The More Things Stay the Same16 May 1994
Season 726 episodes, 19 Sep 1994 to 22 May 1995
  1. E1Brown vs. The Board of Education19 Sep 1994
  2. E2Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?26 Sep 1994
  3. E3Loose Affiliations3 Oct 1994
  4. E4Be Careful What You Wish For10 Oct 1994
  5. E5Burger, She Wrote17 Oct 1994
  6. E6Humboldt IV: Judgment Day24 Oct 1994
  7. E7Frank Cuts Loose31 Oct 1994
  8. E8Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows7 Nov 1994
  9. E9Prelude to a Kiss14 Nov 1994
  10. E10Bye Bye Bernecky21 Nov 1994
  11. E11The Secret Life of Jim Dial28 Nov 1994
  12. E12Brown in Toyland12 Dec 1994
  13. E13The Best and Not-So-Brightest2 Jan 1995
  14. E14Rumble in the Alley9 Jan 1995
  15. E15Requiem for a Crew Guy16 Jan 1995
  16. E16I Want My MTV-Jay23 Jan 1995
  17. E17Specific Overtures6 Feb 1995
  18. E18A Rat's Tale13 Feb 1995
  19. E19It's Miller Time20 Feb 1995
  20. E20McGovern: Unclothed27 Feb 1995
  21. E21The Good Nephew13 Mar 1995
  22. E22FYI of the Hurricane20 Mar 1995
  23. E23Model Relationships8 May 1995
  24. E24Make Room for Daddy15 May 1995
  25. E25Retrospective (1)22 May 1995
  26. E26Retrospective (2)22 May 1995
Season 824 episodes, 18 Sep 1995 to 20 May 1996
  1. E1Altered States18 Sep 1995
  2. E2The Awful Truth25 Sep 1995
  3. E3Fearless Frank2 Oct 1995
  4. E4Murphy's Law9 Oct 1995
  5. E5Sex or Death16 Oct 1995
  6. E6Miller's Crossing23 Oct 1995
  7. E7The Feminine Critique30 Oct 1995
  8. E8Bad Company6 Nov 1995
  9. E9The Ten Percent Solution13 Nov 1995
  10. E10The Humboldt Doldt20 Nov 1995
  11. E11Dick and Dottie27 Nov 1995
  12. E12All in the Family8 Jan 1996
  13. E13If You're Going to Talk the Talk15 Jan 1996
  14. E14My Fair Miller22 Jan 1996
  15. E15Old Flames5 Feb 1996
  16. E16Up in Smoke12 Feb 1996
  17. E17Aftermath19 Feb 1996
  18. E18Trick or Retreat26 Feb 1996
  19. E19All Singing! All Dancing! All Miserable!4 Mar 1996
  20. E20The Bus Stops Here11 Mar 1996
  21. E21When A. Lansing Loves a Woman29 Apr 1996
  22. E22Casa Nova6 May 1996
  23. E23Stepping Out (1)13 May 1996
  24. E24Miles Away (2)20 May 1996
Season 924 episodes, 16 Sep 1996 to 18 May 1997
  1. E1Executive Decision16 Sep 1996
  2. E2Power Play23 Sep 1996
  3. E3A Comedy of Eros30 Sep 1996
  4. E4Son of Dottie7 Oct 1996
  5. E5Office Politics14 Oct 1996
  6. E6Phil's Dead - Long Live Phil's21 Oct 1996
  7. E7That's the Way the Corky Crumbles28 Oct 1996
  8. E8Defending Your Life4 Nov 1996
  9. E9Underdogs11 Nov 1996
  10. E10Nobody's Perfect18 Nov 1996
  11. E11A One Night Stan25 Nov 1996
  12. E12Seperation Anxiety2 Dec 1996
  13. E13Montezuma's Retreat16 Dec 1996
  14. E14The Big Thaw6 Jan 1997
  15. E15Who Do You Truss?13 Jan 1997
  16. E16You Don't Know Jackal20 Jan 1997
  17. E17Blind Date3 Feb 1997
  18. E18Oh, Danny Boy10 Feb 1997
  19. E19Desperate Times17 Feb 1997
  20. E20And That's the Way it Was?25 Feb 1997
  21. E21How to Marry a Billionaire28 Apr 1997
  22. E22Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow5 May 1997
  23. E23Mama Miller12 May 1997
  24. E24When One Door Closes ...18 May 1997
Season 1022 episodes, 1 Oct 1997 to 18 May 1998
  1. E1Murphy Redux1 Oct 1997
  2. E2A Butcher, a Faker, a Bummed-Out Promo Maker8 Oct 1997
  3. E3Ectomy, Schmectomy15 Oct 1997
  4. E4Operation: Murphy Brown22 Oct 1997
  5. E5Florence Night-en Corky29 Oct 1997
  6. E6Waiting to Inhale5 Nov 1997
  7. E7Petty Woman12 Nov 1997
  8. E8From Here to Jerusalem19 Nov 1997
  9. E9Tempus Fugit24 Nov 1997
  10. E10I Hear a Symphony10 Dec 1997
  11. E11From the Terrace17 Dec 1997
  12. E12The Last Temptation of Murphy7 Jan 1998
  13. E13Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day)14 Jan 1998
  14. E14Wee Small Hours21 Jan 1998
  15. E15Then and Now28 Jan 1998
  16. E16Opus One6 Apr 1998
  17. E17Seems Like Gold Times13 Apr 1998
  18. E18Second Time Around20 Apr 1998
  19. E19A Man and a Woman27 Apr 1998
  20. E20Dial and Substance4 May 1998
  21. E21Never Can Say Goodbye (1)18 May 1998
  22. E22Never Can Say Goodbye (2)18 May 1998
Season 1113 episodes, 27 Sep 2018 to 20 Dec 2018
  1. E1Fake News27 Sep 2018
  2. E2I (Don't) Heart Huckabee4 Oct 2018
  3. E3#MurphyToo11 Oct 2018
  4. E4Three Shirts to the Wind18 Oct 2018
  5. E5The Girl Who Cried About Wolf25 Oct 2018
  6. E6Results May Vary1 Nov 2018
  7. E7A Lifetime of Achievement8 Nov 2018
  8. E8The Coma and the Oxford Comma15 Nov 2018
  9. E9Thanksgiving and Taking22 Nov 2018
  10. E10Beat the Press29 Nov 2018
  11. E11The Wheels on the Dog Go Round and Round6 Dec 2018
  12. E12AWOL13 Dec 2018
  13. E13Happy New Year20 Dec 2018

Cast and crew

Created by
Diane English
Cast
Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown, Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood, Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana, Charles Kimbrough as Jim Dial, Grant Shaud as Miles Silverberg, Jake McDorman as Avery Brown, Pat Corley as Phil, Robert Pastorelli as Eldin Bernecky, Nik Dodani as Pat Patel, Tyne Daly as Phyllis, Adan Rocha as Miguel Gonzales, Lily Tomlin as Kay Carter-Shepley

Questions people ask

How many seasons does Murphy Brown have?

Murphy Brown ran for 11 seasons and 260 episodes.

Where can I watch Murphy Brown?

Murphy Brown airs on CBS.

Has Murphy Brown ended?

Yes. Murphy Brown ended on 20 December 2018.

Who is in the cast of Murphy Brown?

The cast of Murphy Brown includes Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Charles Kimbrough, Grant Shaud and Jake McDorman.

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